Close to our Spanish school in Samara, turtles are making their way to lay their eggs in Ostional, Costa Rica, a phenomenon known in Spanish as “arribada” or a mass emergence from the ocean. Thousands of “tortugas lora,” or olive ridley …
I came to Costa Rica for the first time in the summer of 1990 to study Spanish and fell in love… with the language, the country, the people, the music, even the monsoon-like rains:). When I went home 6 weeks …
I’m at the end of my first week of studying Spanish in charming Heredia after taking a few weeks of classes at the Sámara Beach Campus and have tried to take advantage of being in a city again! Yogi I …
May 30, 2011 – The New York Times The Bilingual Advantage By CLAUDIA DREIFUS A cognitive neuroscientist, Ellen Bialystok has spent almost 40 years learning about how bilingualism sharpens the mind. Her good news: Among other benefits, the regular use …
By Simon Briscoe in London Published: July 4 2009 03:00 | Last updated: July 4 2009 03:00 Costa Rica, the country of fewer than 5m people sandwiched between Panama and Nicaragua, tops a new global ranking for combining a happy …